Faye Moskowitz

 

She, bored out of her senses,
carefully inspects the pimple
that precedes the onset of the menses
while he compares her to the latest centerfold,
checks the Journal for the price of gold,
wonders why his feet are always cold.

She, too, shivers under the covers,
wonders why she tells her secrets
to the man who does her hair.
She sighs,
closes her eyes,
opens her thighs
and lies there
while he tastes the toothpaste of despair,
dumps his trousers on a chair,
thumps the BEAUTYREST they share,
then humps his wife
because she’s there.

 

Faye Moskowitz  is professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing, having retired from the George Washington University in May of 2016. She is author of A Leak in the Heart (David Godine: Boston, 1985), Whoever Finds This: I Love You (David Godine, Boston, 1988), And the Bridge is Love (Beacon Press: Boston, 1991). Peace in the House (David Godine: Boston, 2002) And the Bridge is Love, reissued by Feminist Press, (CUNY, NY, 2011). She is editor of Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press: Boston, 1995).